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Kūfic script
Kūfic script, double folio from the Qurʾān, ink on parchment, Abbasid caliphate,...
Photograph by Howard Cheng. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky, M.73.5.497
Kufic script
Inscriptions in Kufic script on the Qutb Minar tower in Delhi.
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Early Kūfic book style
Early Kūfic book style, leaf from a Qurʾān, 8th or 9th century; in the Freer Gallery...
Courtesy of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Figure 214: Bottle of enamelled and gilt glass decorated withChinese motifs and an...
Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Kūfic script. Double page opening of a Qurʾān from Syria, 9th century ad....
Courtesy of R. Pinder-Wilson